Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining

Chapter 3 — Lands Containing Coal, Oil, Gas, Salts, Asphaltic Materials, Sodium, Sulphur, and Building Stone

§ 72. Preference right of coal mine entry; acreage limitation

Statutory text

Any person or association of persons severally qualified, as provided in section 71 of this title, who have opened and improved, or shall open and improve, any coal mine or mines upon the public lands, and shall be in actual possession of the same, shall be entitled to a preference right of entry, under section 71 of this title, of the mines so opened and improved: Provided, That when any association of not less than four persons, severally qualified as provided in section 71 of this title, shall have expended not less than $5,000 in working and improving any such mine or mines, such association may enter not exceeding six hundred and forty acres, including such mining improvements.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

undated
(R.S. § 2348.)
Enacted · 30 U.S.C. § 72
(R.S. § 2348.)
Unresolved: No Public Law or Statutes at Large citation in the Code source.
Source evidence
Code source credit
(R.S. § 2348.)

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 unresolved

Editorial Notes

Codification

R.S. § 2348 derived from act Mar. 3, 1873, ch. 279, § 2, 17 Stat. 607.

Executive Documents

Indian Lands Excepted

See note set out under section 71 of this title.

Credits

(R.S. § 2348.)